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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOSEPH V. FLECK, OF LEBANON, MISSOURI, ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELF, JAMES W. APPLING, JOHN A. ELLIOTT, AND CHARLES A. SMITH, ALL OF SAME PLACE.

CLOTH ES-DRIER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent. No. 350,237, dated October 5, 1886.

Application filed April 12, 18I86. Serial No. 198,519. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOSEPH V. FLncK, of Lebanon, in the county of Laclede and State of Missouri, have invented a new and Improved Olothes-Drier, of which the following is afull, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to the construction of a cheap, durable, and efticient clothes-drier so arranged that the arms carrying the clotheslines may be extended at any angle desired, said arms being free to turnin a body upon their supporti ng-standard.

The invention consists of certain novel con structions and combinations of parts to be hereinafter explained, and specificallypointed out in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure l is a central vertical section elevation of a portion of my improved clothesdrier. Fig. 2 is a sectional plan view taken on line a: as of Fig. 1; and Fig. 3 is a detail view illustrating the construction of the plate 'to which the upper ends of the brace-rods are secured, said plate being carried by the vertical standard.

in constructing such a clothes-drier as is illustrated in the drawings above referred to I provide ahollow standard, A, that is mounted in a base-plate, B, and. properly braced by rods 0 0. Within this standard A, I arrange a central adjustable rod or pipe,

D, upon the bottom of which there is a collar.

or bushing, a, which fits closely Within the bore of the standard A, the rod or pipe D being guided and held at the upper end of the standard A by a collar, E, which is formed with a sleeve or annular flange, e, which fits closely within the top of the standard A, therod or pipe D being held in any position de sired by means of a set-screw, c, that is car-- ried by the collar E. The arms N N N, of which there may be any number desired, and upon which the clothes-lines n are mounted, are pivotally connected to a runner, H, that encircles the standard A, and isprovidedwith a set-screw, k, by means of which it is clamped to the standard.

In order that the weight of the arms N N may be supported and their position adjusted,

I provide each arm with a suspending or per end of the rod or pipe D, the connection being such that the plate P is free to turn upon its connection with the central rod or pipe. The clothes-lines n n are held in place by means of hooks s. the shanksof which extend upward through the arms N, to engage With an eccentric, 15, having a handle, a, the parts being so arranged that when-the handle is moved to the position shown in Fig. 2 the point of the hook s will be brought up close against'the under side of the arm.

From the construction described it will be seen that the arms N are free to turn about their central supports, and that the parts may be adjusted to any position desired, but that, no matter how far the rod or pipe D may be extended, it will not wabble, on account of the arrangement of the flanged collar E and the bushing c.

Having thus fully described myinvention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by .Letters Patent, is

1. The combination, with a hollow supporting-standard, of avertically-adjustable rod or pipe extending through the upper end of the standard, a plate loosely mounted on top of the said vertically-adjustable rod, a sleeve or runner loosely mounted on the supportingstandard, outward-extending arms pivoted at their inner ends to the said sleeve or runner and provided at. their outer ends with lineholding devices, and rods connected to the loose plate on top of the vertically-adjustable rod and to the said outward-extending arms, substantially as set forth. 2. In a clothes-drier, the combinatiouwith a flanged collar, E, of a central rod or pipe having a bushing, a, runner H, having a setscrew, 70, and carrying arms N N, suspending or brace rods 0 O, and a plate, P, loosely mounted on the upper end of the adjustable rod or pipe D, substantially as described.

3. The combination, with a clothes-drier, substantially as described, of clamping-hooks s, eccentrics t, engaged with said hooks and having handles it, substantially as described.

' Witnesses: JOSEPH V. FLEGK. H. T. WRIGHT, V

J. W. WALLACE. 

